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[Xen-devel] Re: [bisected] 2.6.31 regression: fails to boot as xen guest

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [bisected] 2.6.31 regression: fails to boot as xen guest
From: Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:38:14 +0200
Cc: "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, LKML <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx" <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>, "torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Arnd Hannemann <Arnd.Hannemann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 08/25/09 11:25, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Arnd Hannemann <hannemann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Pekka Enberg wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 19:49 +0200, Arnd Hannemann wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Pekka,
>>>>>
>>>>> Pekka Enberg wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 18:49 +0200, Arnd Hannemann wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks for doing the bisect! Can we also see your
>>>>>>>> .config also?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Config for -rc7 is attached. My bisect configs were based
>>>>>>> on that
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks! While we wait for the Xen people, you can try the
>>>>>> following patch to see if we can narrow the bug down to
>>>>>> trap_init().
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yes seems to be trap_init(). -rc7 with this patch applied
>>>>> boots up to the prompt.
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks for testing! Ingo, what do you think of the following
>>>> patch? AFAICT, x86-32 is the only architecture playing with
>>>> traps in mem_init() so this should be the safest fix for
>>>> 2.6.31.
>>>>
>>> Hmm, -rc7 + this fix does not work for me :-/ Still hangs before
>>> any output...
>>>
>> does earlyprintk=vga tell you anything about precisely where it
>> hangs?
>>
>
> It's a Xen domain, so it should be earlyprintk=xen
>
> J
>
Here is the output with earlyprintk=xen and the second patch from pekka
applied:

(early) [    0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
(early) [    0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit
even in supervisor mode...(early)
(early) [    0.000000] BUG: unable to handle kernel (early) NULL pointer
dereference(early)  at (null)
(early) [    0.000000] IP:(early)  [<c1192993>]
xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0xd3/0x160
(early) [    0.000000] *pdpt = 0000000008386001 (early)
(early) [    0.000000] Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted
(early) [    0.000000] Oops: 0000 [#1] (early) SMP (early)
(early) [    0.000000] last sysfs file:
(early) [    0.000000] Modules linked in:(early)
(early) [    0.000000]
(early) [    0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted
(2.6.31-rc7-pae-um #10)
(early) [    0.000000] EIP: 0061:[<c1192993>] EFLAGS: 00010046 CPU: 0
(early) [    0.000000] EIP is at xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0xd3/0x160
(early) [    0.000000] EAX: 00000004 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000004 EDX:
ffffffff
(early) [    0.000000] ESI: fffffffe EDI: 00000000 EBP: 00000000 ESP:
c1413e64
(early) [    0.000000]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: e021
(early) [    0.000000] Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=c1412000
task=c13d11a0 task.ti=c1412000)
(early) [    0.000000] Stack:
(early) [    0.000000]  f5793000(early)  c146d9f0(early) 
c146d9f0(early)  00000000(early)  c1413e9c(early)  00000000(early) 
00000000(early)  c3a01020(early)
(early) [    0.000000] <0>(early)  00000000(early)  eec06067(early) 
c000cff8(early)  00000000(early)  00000000(early)  c10086d7(early) 
eec06067(early)  c000cff8(early)
(early) [    0.000000] <0>(early)  f55ff000(early)  c000cff8(early) 
00000000(early)  00000000(early)  c13d7d60(early)  c101e021(early) 
c141e021(early)  c10100d8(early)
(early) [    0.000000] Call Trace:
(early) [    0.000000]  [<c10086d7>] ? xen_do_upcall+0x7/0xc
(early) [    0.000000]  [<c101e021>] ? ptep_set_access_flags+0x1/0x80
(early) [    0.000000]  [<c141e021>] ? find_e820_area_size+0x51/0x330
(early)


Best regards,
Arnd


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